Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Monday that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was trying to silence her in the middle of rising rates of the coronavirus in the state, pledging to fight his efforts to reverse a mask required in her city “with whatever we have.”
” He certainly wishes to silence my voice,” Bottoms informed MSNBC’s Joy Reid throughout the debut of her brand-new program, “The ReidOut.”
” In a time when we are in the middle of a pandemic, we require as numerous voices as we can have as possible sounding the alarm, motivating people to wear masks, and to take all precautions, and to follow the science and the information,” she said.
” It is totally unreasonable the course that this governor has put us on,” she added.
” It is entirely unreasonable the course that this guv has actually put us on,” Mayor Bottoms states of Gov. Kemp following his decision to sue over her mask required. “ICU capability in Atlanta, I think we have roughly about 13%left … and yet he wants to silence me.” pic.twitter.com/cDuMUO8vTN
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The remarks come amidst an ongoing fight in the state in between Bottoms, a Democrat, and the Republican governor. Kemp took legal action against the mayor and other city council members recently over their efforts to need face masks in public places, stating the guidelines were more stringent than those he set out statewide and might not be enforced. Bottoms has argued the mask orders she’s trying to execute are in line with public health recommendati